Airline Routes

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Virgin Australia returns to Bali and launches new OOL-DPS route

Virgin to Restart More International Routes

Virgin Australia has confirmed it will resume flights to two more international destinations in March 2023. The airline will also add a brand new international route from Gold Coast to Bali. From 10 March 2023, Virgin will resume flights from Brisbane to Port Vila in Vanuatu, which will reopen to tourists next month. This will … Continued

16 Jun 2022 Virgin Australia
Air New Zealand A320 at Auckland Airport

Air New Zealand May Not Return to Norfolk Island

Air New Zealand may not resume serving the routes from Brisbane and Sydney to Norfolk Island, despite the Australian government initially granting Air New Zealand the contract to service these routes until August 2023. Air New Zealand had been the sole operator on the Brisbane-Norfolk Island and Sydney-Norfolk Island routes from 2018 until 2021. Both … Continued

10 Jun 2022 Air New Zealand
Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800

Virgin Australia’s Flights to Bali Selling Fast

Virgin Australia will next week resume flying from Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne to Bali. It will be the first time Virgin has flown to Indonesia since March 2020, but the airline is coming back strong with many flights already sold out weeks in advance! From 15 June 2022, Virgin Australia will resume daily Sydney-Denpasar (Bali) … Continued

United Airlines Boeing 787

United Airlines Will Fly to Brisbane

United Airlines will fly from Brisbane to San Francisco from October, becoming the first airline to add new service between Australia and the United States since the pandemic. From 28 October 2022, United will fly three times per week between Brisbane and San Francisco using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. This is the schedule: Tickets are already … Continued

Qantas 787 Italy route launch

Qantas Flights to Rome Selling Extremely Well

Qantas’ first commercial flights to Rome since 2003 haven’t even taken off yet, but some flights on the flying kangaroo’s seasonal Perth-Rome service are already sold out. Qantas will commence 3x weekly Sydney-Perth-Rome flights on 22 June 2022 using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. The route will run over the peak European summer period and the September … Continued

30 May 2022 Qantas
Rex Saab 340 planes at Albury Airport

Rex Withdraws from 7 Regional Routes

Rex will end all services on the Sydney-Canberra route this weekend, just over a year after entering the route. The announcement comes days after the regional airline revealed it will cease serving the Melbourne-Albury route at the end of May. Rex is also withdrawing from five other regional routes including Sydney-Bathurst and Adelaide-Kingscote at the end … Continued

Oslo departures board

13 New Airlines That Launched During COVID-19

Many airports around the world look different now. Some of the changes are minor, like the addition of COVID-19 testing stations, markings on the ground telling you where to stand or vending machines selling face masks and hand sanitiser. Plane spotters may also now notice that some of the aircraft tails at airports around the … Continued

15 May 2022 Other Airlines
Emirates A380

Emirates A380s Return to Christchurch & Auckland in December 2022

Emirates has committed to resuming Airbus A380 flights from Christchurch to Dubai via Sydney from 1 December 2022. From the same date, Emirates will also resume direct Auckland-Dubai A380 flights. The Auckland-Dubai and Christchurch-Sydney-Dubai routes were both operated daily by Emirates before the pandemic. But for the past couple of years, Emirates has not flown to … Continued

12 May 2022 Emirates
Qantas 787

Qantas Brings Back Perth-London a Month Early

Qantas will now restore its direct flights from Perth to London from 23 May 2022 – around four weeks earlier than previously planned. The announcement comes just days after Qantas had to offload large numbers of bags and passengers from its Darwin-London flights due to emergency runway works at Darwin International Airport. With a shortened runway … Continued

5 May 2022 Qantas
Air Vanuatu cabin crew

Air Vanuatu Returns to Australia from July 2022

Air Vanuatu will resume flights to Australia from 1 July 2022, with the nation of Vanuatu also reopening its border to tourists on the same date – just in time for the next school holidays! Vaccinated visitors to Vanuatu will not be required to quarantine from this date. From July, Air Vanuatu will operate 5x … Continued

27 Apr 2022 Other Airlines
Qantas Airbus A330-300

New Qantas Routes from Sydney to Seoul & Bengaluru

Qantas will launch two new international destinations from Sydney later this year, with non-stop flights to Seoul and Bengaluru. Jetstar will also launch a new route from Sydney to Seoul. Tickets are already on sale and Qantas Classic Flight Reward seats are now available on some of these flights. The first three Qantas flights from … Continued

8 Apr 2022 Qantas